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I'm not buying the 1/4 reference. When the PA Retirement System was forced to release the amount of his salary paid by the University, they did that; but I believe that he earns much more than that from bonuses, media appearances, shoe company deals, etc., and that the portion of the salary that was announced just isn't apples to apples to the full amounts made known by other programs.
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I'm not trying to say anything negative about his salary - and I know he raised millions for the University library, but to state that he only makes about 25% of other coaches at big programs is disingenuous.
And the wins and losses are in "good shape" this season, but with the off-the-field issues of the last couple years I wouldn't make a blanket statement that the program is in "good shape".
I think the time will be right for JoePa to retire at the end of this year. It will follow what looks to be a 10-win season, and everyone should be able to accept the fact that health issues were a key reason for him leaving; there shouldn't be a feeling that "the game passed him by" and that he stayed too long. It would be a positive note on the tail end of his coaching legacy, which is deservedly quite substantial.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Re: Well, try this: Paterno has lost nine straight games to Michigan, his last win coming in 1996.
"No, no, no, it's not a mental thing," Paterno insisted this week.
It's just a losing thing.
I like that comment.
"No, no, no, it's not a mental thing," Paterno insisted this week.
It's just a losing thing.
I like that comment.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Paterno says he'll get leg checked out
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State coach Joe Paterno plans to have doctors check out his ailing right leg and hip next week, when the third-ranked Nittany Lions have no game.
The 81-year-old Paterno has been hobbled by the injury since trying to demonstrate an onside kick the first week of the season. He has coached from the press box the last three games.
Paterno has used a cane to get around the last two weeks. Unbeaten Penn State plays at Ohio State on Saturday night in a key Big Ten showdown.
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Paterno says he remains day-to-day on whether he'll be coaching from the sideline on in the press box.
Entire article: FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Paterno says he'll get leg checked out
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State coach Joe Paterno plans to have doctors check out his ailing right leg and hip next week, when the third-ranked Nittany Lions have no game.
The 81-year-old Paterno has been hobbled by the injury since trying to demonstrate an onside kick the first week of the season. He has coached from the press box the last three games.
Paterno has used a cane to get around the last two weeks. Unbeaten Penn State plays at Ohio State on Saturday night in a key Big Ten showdown.
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Paterno says he remains day-to-day on whether he'll be coaching from the sideline on in the press box.
Entire article: FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Paterno says he'll get leg checked out
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jimotis4heisman
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this will likely be the last time i ever "see" joe pa. i remember the last time i saw john wooden, woody and few other coaches in person. joe pa is in that class imo. i will be able to tell my kids that i saw him and his team plays many times, i am lucky.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Paterno's uncertain future has one certainty: He deserves a deal
If I'm Joe Paterno's agent this week I'm PO'd.
Penn State president Graham Spanier won't take my calls. This is the week of the Ohio State game and if there was ever a time to discuss a new contract, this is it.
We're not talking contract extension, we're talking a contract. After this season, Joe doesn't have one. That is by Joe's choosing, but the coach does a lot of crazy things. God help us if unbeaten Penn State botches an onside kick against the Buckeyes. He'll be limping out of the press box and onto the field for another demonstration.
If this were any other coach, his agent would be hitting up the athletic director and/or president.
What more does my guy have to do? What are you waiting for? Let's get this thing done?
My client has never been hotter, except maybe when he was 77 and Penn State last won the Big Ten.
Not to go Scott Boras on you, but in his 81st year, Amos Alonzo Stagg went 7-2 at Pacific. It was his best record in 20 years. At age 81, my guy is undefeated, contending for his third national championship, and his second Big Ten title in four years.
Unfortunately for my bank account, I'm not Joe's agent. No one is.
That explains why the great coach is working without a net this season. He called the administration's bluff and said he was absolutely fine coaching without a new deal in 2008. Now the pressure turns to Mr. Spanier. Penn State is 8-0. Recruiting is going great with 18 commitments and a top 25-rated class for 2009.
What other coach in the country could do that without a 2009 contract?
This is not about the coach's time spent on Earth, this is about the 800-pound lineman in the room. Everyone knows he's there but doesn't want to admit the obvious: What's going to happen to Joe after the season?
Let's start small. Does he deserve a new contract?
Absolutely.
Vin Scully deserves to broadcast the Dodgers until his buttery-smooth voice turns a croak. Don Rickles deserves his own Vegas show until he can't zing anymore. And only two things will be left alive if the big one ever hits -- cock roaches and Keith Richards. (Both live unsanitary lifestyles. Both seem impervious to nuclear radiation. Both are leftovers from a prehistoric era. Rock on, Keith. Oh, and happy 65th in December.)
Whether Joe actually gets that contract isn't the issue. Somebody just needs to give him an atta-boy for this incredible season. "Deserves" is merely an affirmation that he has earned it. You sign Joe to a four-year deal knowing that his career (at least) could end before the contract is completed. You sign that deal because the assistants have been running the program for years anyway. You sign that deal because, if nothing else, it's a lifetime achievement award.
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Entire article: Paterno's uncertain future has one certainty: He deserves a deal - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats
If I'm Joe Paterno's agent this week I'm PO'd.
Penn State president Graham Spanier won't take my calls. This is the week of the Ohio State game and if there was ever a time to discuss a new contract, this is it.
We're not talking contract extension, we're talking a contract. After this season, Joe doesn't have one. That is by Joe's choosing, but the coach does a lot of crazy things. God help us if unbeaten Penn State botches an onside kick against the Buckeyes. He'll be limping out of the press box and onto the field for another demonstration.
If this were any other coach, his agent would be hitting up the athletic director and/or president.
What more does my guy have to do? What are you waiting for? Let's get this thing done?
My client has never been hotter, except maybe when he was 77 and Penn State last won the Big Ten.
Not to go Scott Boras on you, but in his 81st year, Amos Alonzo Stagg went 7-2 at Pacific. It was his best record in 20 years. At age 81, my guy is undefeated, contending for his third national championship, and his second Big Ten title in four years.
Unfortunately for my bank account, I'm not Joe's agent. No one is.
That explains why the great coach is working without a net this season. He called the administration's bluff and said he was absolutely fine coaching without a new deal in 2008. Now the pressure turns to Mr. Spanier. Penn State is 8-0. Recruiting is going great with 18 commitments and a top 25-rated class for 2009.
What other coach in the country could do that without a 2009 contract?
This is not about the coach's time spent on Earth, this is about the 800-pound lineman in the room. Everyone knows he's there but doesn't want to admit the obvious: What's going to happen to Joe after the season?
Let's start small. Does he deserve a new contract?
Absolutely.
Vin Scully deserves to broadcast the Dodgers until his buttery-smooth voice turns a croak. Don Rickles deserves his own Vegas show until he can't zing anymore. And only two things will be left alive if the big one ever hits -- cock roaches and Keith Richards. (Both live unsanitary lifestyles. Both seem impervious to nuclear radiation. Both are leftovers from a prehistoric era. Rock on, Keith. Oh, and happy 65th in December.)
Whether Joe actually gets that contract isn't the issue. Somebody just needs to give him an atta-boy for this incredible season. "Deserves" is merely an affirmation that he has earned it. You sign Joe to a four-year deal knowing that his career (at least) could end before the contract is completed. You sign that deal because the assistants have been running the program for years anyway. You sign that deal because, if nothing else, it's a lifetime achievement award.
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Entire article: Paterno's uncertain future has one certainty: He deserves a deal - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Paterno headed for grand finale?
Joe Paterno does not speak to his team at halftime because it is too difficult to get up and down from the press box.
Are you rooting for the old man? Or do you find yourself wincing watching him limp around?
Joe Paterno's 2008 Penn State Nittany Lions are on the verge of writing the ultimate feel-good story. If No. 3 Penn State can pull off a victory at No. 10 Ohio State on Saturday night in Paterno's biggest regular-season game in more than a decade, the Nittany Lions will put themselves on course for a possible berth in the BCS Championship Game. They could deliver their iconic coach the sixth undefeated season of his 43-year tenure in what many believe will be his final year.
Can't you picture the final scene? After knocking off favored Texas or Alabama at Dolphin Stadium on Jan. 8, the Nittany Lions' triumphant players lift their bespectacled coach on their shoulders and carry him off the field.
There's only one problem with that fantasy. JoePa might not be on the field to celebrate with his players. He hasn't stood on the sideline since the first half of his team's Sept. 20 game against Temple.
Amidst an otherwise gratifying season, the 81-year-old Paterno is in serious pain -- and for longtime JoePa followers, it's becoming painful to watch.
Paterno injured his hip while attempting an onside kick in practice earlier this season. Between that and arthritic pain in his right leg -- which he says he developed while recovering from the broken left leg he sustained during a sideline collision two years ago -- Paterno has been forced to watch games from the press box and practices from a golf cart.
He walks with a cane. He has trouble getting up and down steps. So far he's been treating the injuries primarily with pain pills but said Tuesday he will "take a day or two off" during Penn State's bye week next week to "let our doctors take a look at it and see where we go from there." Numerous media outlets have speculated he will eventually need hip replacement surgery.
Until now, Paterno always seemed to defy his age. "He's 20 years younger than what his stated age is in terms of his energy level," Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli recently told The New York Times.
While Florida State counterpart Bobby Bowden long since resorted to watching practice from a tower, Paterno remained right in the thick of things, getting in his players' faces and personally demonstrating techniques when necessary.
Not these days.
"Ordinarily I'd like to run around once in a while and do some conditioning with the kids and horse around with them," Paterno said this week. "A lot of days I'm in some pain, and you hate like the dickens to show it because you don't want to take away from the enthusiasm of the team in their practice work."
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Entire article: Joe Paterno is enjoying one of his best seasons at Penn State. - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
Joe Paterno does not speak to his team at halftime because it is too difficult to get up and down from the press box.
Are you rooting for the old man? Or do you find yourself wincing watching him limp around?
Joe Paterno's 2008 Penn State Nittany Lions are on the verge of writing the ultimate feel-good story. If No. 3 Penn State can pull off a victory at No. 10 Ohio State on Saturday night in Paterno's biggest regular-season game in more than a decade, the Nittany Lions will put themselves on course for a possible berth in the BCS Championship Game. They could deliver their iconic coach the sixth undefeated season of his 43-year tenure in what many believe will be his final year.
Can't you picture the final scene? After knocking off favored Texas or Alabama at Dolphin Stadium on Jan. 8, the Nittany Lions' triumphant players lift their bespectacled coach on their shoulders and carry him off the field.
There's only one problem with that fantasy. JoePa might not be on the field to celebrate with his players. He hasn't stood on the sideline since the first half of his team's Sept. 20 game against Temple.
Amidst an otherwise gratifying season, the 81-year-old Paterno is in serious pain -- and for longtime JoePa followers, it's becoming painful to watch.
Paterno injured his hip while attempting an onside kick in practice earlier this season. Between that and arthritic pain in his right leg -- which he says he developed while recovering from the broken left leg he sustained during a sideline collision two years ago -- Paterno has been forced to watch games from the press box and practices from a golf cart.
He walks with a cane. He has trouble getting up and down steps. So far he's been treating the injuries primarily with pain pills but said Tuesday he will "take a day or two off" during Penn State's bye week next week to "let our doctors take a look at it and see where we go from there." Numerous media outlets have speculated he will eventually need hip replacement surgery.
Until now, Paterno always seemed to defy his age. "He's 20 years younger than what his stated age is in terms of his energy level," Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli recently told The New York Times.
While Florida State counterpart Bobby Bowden long since resorted to watching practice from a tower, Paterno remained right in the thick of things, getting in his players' faces and personally demonstrating techniques when necessary.
Not these days.
"Ordinarily I'd like to run around once in a while and do some conditioning with the kids and horse around with them," Paterno said this week. "A lot of days I'm in some pain, and you hate like the dickens to show it because you don't want to take away from the enthusiasm of the team in their practice work."
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Entire article: Joe Paterno is enjoying one of his best seasons at Penn State. - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
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